HAPPY AS LAZZARO
Film - CineMasters Competition Filmfest 2018

HAPPY AS LAZZARO

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher

Info

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Section: CineMasters Competition
Country: Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland
Year: 2018
PT: GLÜCKLICH WIE LAZZARO
OT: LAZZARO FELICE
Language: Italian
Version: Original version with English subtitles, Original version with German subtitles
Cast: Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Tommaso Ragno, Nicoletta Braschi, Sergi López
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

HAPPY AS LAZZARO

A few dozen farmers and farmhands are working a remote parcel of land under the rule of the marquese. They don't know that their enslavement has long been illegal, nor is it clear exactly when and where they are laboring. Happy Lazzaro is one of them. One day, he might possibly be resurrected like his Biblical namesake and find himself in another time in which other means of exploitation prevail. His story is a fairy tale or a myth, between heaven and earth, between magic and realism.

Meet the director

HAPPY AS LAZZARO

Alice Rohrwacher

Alice Rohrwacher was born in Fiesole, Italy, in 1981, to an Italian mother and a German father. She studied literature and philosophy in Turin and was scriptwriter, cinematographer, and editor for the documentary film UN PICCOLO SPETTACOLO. In 2006, she made her debut as a director with the documentary CHECOSAMANCA. Her first feature film, CORPO CELESTE (2011), and LE MERAVIGLIE (2014) were shown at the Cannes Film Festival, where the latter received the Jury Prize. Alice Rohrwacher has presented both films at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN.

Credits

Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher
Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart
Film Editor: Nelly Quettier
Composer: Piero Crucitti
Production Designer: Emita Frigato
Costume Design: Loredana Buscemi
Sound: Christophe Giovannoni
Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina
Production Company: TEMPESTA SRL
Co-Producer: Tiziana Soudani, Alexandra Henochsberg, Grégory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Pierre-François Piet, Michel Merkt, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen
Co-Production Company: Rai Cinema, Amka Films Productions SA, Pola Pandora Filmproduktion
World Sales: The Match Factory
Distributor: Piffl Medien GmbH